7/9/2004

“On July 9, 2004, the Senate Intelligence Committee issued a blistering 511-page report that proved, definitively, that the information Congress had relied on in support of the invasion of Iraq, was ‘either overstated or…not supported by the underlying intelligence’ when it came to allegations that Saddam Hussein possessed weapons of mass destruction. Delivering 117 separate conclusions, the report laid the blame squarely on what it characterized as a dysfunctional intelligence system led by CIA Director George Tenet.”

 – Peter Lance, Cover Up, Pages 248-249